It is said that there is no safer place than, a. railway carriage. It is an open question, however, whether it is not nearly' or ouite-as safe < to b& m a. passenger sUainsfvip. The Steamslßi-p Owneis' Assctiation estimate that during the past twenty-tive years upwards of 7,000,000 -persons have passed tl»v>uigh that imrt on voyages to or from cown tries out of Europe.* The majority, of thc&e voyages were made apioss Uie Nortin Atlantic in' one direot-ion oj.^ the other, and out of these 7.000,C00 passengers only fmty-'oKO-last their lives from 1 sea. perils. The figures are astonishing, even for a pcirt which ' boasts, tlje'- finest' passenger sliips m the world. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)
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